What's New

Wowhead's sole reason for existence is to make your gameplay more enjoyable.

Each day, our team is working to update and upgrade the site to make your user experience better. You can always check out this page for a list of features we've added, or just to see what we're up to!

Don't forget—if you have an idea for a feature you'd like to see on Wowhead, be sure and contact us and let us know about it!

November 2015

WeakAuras Exports were added to ability, specialization, and talent spell pages. All spells now come with an easy UI to customize WeakAuras, and an intelligent default aura including special customizations for unique spells.

October 2015

Archaeology Projects have been added to the Profiler.

The Battle.net API does not track certain collections correctly, so we added Advanced Profiler Tracking so your Profiler collections are accurate.

Get personalized charts by Pinning a character on the Wowhead Profiler. Bars for things you've completed will be green instead of blue, and chart tooltips will show that you've completed it.

September 2015

Our database now has a site map/hub page: http://wowhead.com/database. This page organizes all of the database categories and relevant tools, links to popular filters, and highlights recent comments and screenshots.

The Profiler received several updates: sorting options have been renamed to sound more user-friendly, a legend has been added explaining all the colors for pet completion bars, and the algorithm for determining the size of the green completion bars has been recalculated to better reflect the power of your collected pets.

We're holding a Legion Art Contest with four tablets as prizes, including a Cintiq 27 QHD Touch!

July 2015

Wowhead's database, guides, news, and most tools are now mobile-friendly! Learn more here. If you have a Premium Account, your premium status carries over to disable ads and enhance site features!

The Adventure Journal is a new addition in 6.2 which provides personalized content recommendations. We've taken those recommendations and added them to the top of our Character Planner!

We've added notifications to Today in Draenor for premium users so you can get alerted when the dailies you need are up on your realm.

The Action Bar Simulator lets you arrange spells for each spec, assign them keybinds, and indicate which keybinds are for macros.

We've partnered with Overwolf so you can access Wowhead in-game. The Wowhead App comes preinstalled with Overwolf, is completely free, and lets you search the site without having to alt-tab out of game.

Our class guides and resources received a revamp with more information including pages for add-ons, gearing, and talents, a new layout, and general guides for the four major roles.

Our subscribers have a new feature! You can now customize the front page sidebar by moving all of the blocks around using the up and down arrows. Like Today in Draenor? It can be at the top now.

We've created a simple Item Recommendations tool where you can directly compare two items, select a specialization and average item level, and receive an estimate if the item is an upgrade or not. This page also summarizes your stat priority and links to additional gear recommendations and class guides.

Items pages now have a "Quick Compare" option in Quick Facts which takes you to the Item Recommendations tool with the gear you were visiting automatically loaded.

Filtering items with stat weights for a particular slot now includes Warforged, Socketed, and random stat versions of items in results.

April 2015

Our transmog set database now lets you choose the race and gender you want to view the sets on in our Gallery view and on specific transmog set pages.

Get personalized gear recommendations on item pages by pinning a Battle.net character via the Profiler. You'll see a special "Upgrade for" section in Quick Facts when visiting any gear page. This lists the name of the character for whom it is an upgrade and clicking on it takes you to their Profile page.

We added Critters of Draenor, Traders, Trading Post Work Orders, and Menagerie details to Today in Draenor.

The mission calculator expanded to display up to three recommendations for maximum experience as well as options to choose followers with Epic Mount and to calculate the success as if your followers were at max ilvl. The calculator now lets users link their specific follower combinations as well.

Follower tracking on the Profiler now lets users filter by all counters and trait buffs. Pinning a character via the Profiler also displays completion status for your followers across the site.

Profession recipe tooltips now show if they have a cooldown greater than a day, and how many materials the recipe creates.

Crafted items that can be upgraded or rerolled have received some improvements. Upgrade item pages have a tab showing what items they can upgrade, reroll item pages have a tab showing what items they can reroll, and crafted item pages show what items can be used to upgrade them in Quick Facts.

January 2015

Wowhead can now track your follower collection, using it to power personalized mission recommendations. Learn more here.

Our follower database received some improvements. Follower pages now display all the potential abilities they can get based on their class and spec, instead of just default abilities. A "May Counter" filter has been added showing what threats a follower could counter from their pool of five abilities.

Toy Box Collections are now tracked on Wowhead via the Profiler. This displays all of your toys broken down by Source and filters to hide types of toys you're not interested in collecting. If you "Pin" your character via the Profiler's header, your Toy Box collection is displayed when you browse toys across the site, showing completion info.

Heirloom tooltips now show upgrades and source information, and upgrade bonuses are supported on our item tooltips.

Other data types have received tooltip improvements. Toy Box tooltips show source information from the in-game collection UI, mission tooltips display rewards, number of followers, and more, and Garrison Ability tooltips show type, category, and spec.

Transmog Sets now have in-game links to the dressup window, so you can preview transmog sets in game.

Items now show more stat variations, including tertiary stats, warforged options, extra sockets, random stats, and crafting stages. Items on pages can be modified to show extra stats and they are supported with our tooltips.

If an item can be crafted without knowing a profession, the related spell will show the required Level 2 or 3 Garrison building.

We built a Garrison Mission calculator, visible on all mission pages, for you to plan out what followers to use on missions to counter threats. Mission pages have also received styling updates to better resemble what you see in-game.

September 2014

Heirloom scaling is now enabled for post-squish Warlords items, as well as Garrosh Heirlooms like Лабрисса Адского Крика from 90-100.

Draenor Perks are now displayed on the spell tooltips that they modify, such as Исчезновение.

Spell scaling is enabled on boss ability pages, as raids scale in size from 10-30 players in Warlords of Draenor. You can also change the tooltip to display a particular difficulty.

Garrison Building pages now display how many followers can be assigned and their maximum amount of work orders. The main Garrison building pages also lets you browse by image view!

We've added a new column on item search results called Bonuses. These show all the other versions of an item, for example, a Mythic item would display the Heroic variant in this column.

You can now sort the name column with or without sorting by quality as well. The first two clicks on the "Name" column will only sort by name, and the 3rd and 4th click will sort by quality, then by name ascending or descending.

August 2014

Warlords of Draenor filters are now fully working! Due to item data changes, many filters had to be refactored--item level, required level, all stats, all raid difficulties. As there is only one item page for all versions of an item in WoD, vs a page for each item, we have modified the filters to show multiple versions of an item in a filter, instead of the "basic" version displayed by default on the page. Just visit http://wod.wowhead.com/items to see them in action.

Wowhead now supports Battle.net Oauth Login. Logging in with your Battle.net account is as simple as clicking a button, instead of entering a User Name and Password. All of your Battle.net characters show up under "My Profiles" automatically in the "Import" submenu as well.

Our Garrison calculator now shows any building requirements like achievements or blueprints, the cost for a specific building level, and the total cost for building and upgrading a building! The Garrison Calculator now supports buildings with faction-specific names and displays building bonuses for lower-level buildings when selecting a higher-level building.

Warlords of Draenor itemsets have been added, including pages for Normal, Heroic, and Mythic Tier 17.

The Item Comparison Tool is fully updated for Warlords of Draenor, supporting all item bonuses/difficulty variations.

Warlords of Draenor boss pages now support loot tabs for all raid difficulties--LFR, Normal, Heroic, and Mythic. Due to the item changes mentioned above, these pages have been refactored to have the boss loot automatically update their stats based on the difficulty you have selected. Legacy raid difficulties are also currently supported.

July 2014

Warlords of Draenor and 6.0 items now display item bonuses. Item bonuses are part of Blizzard's efforts to refactor item data in Warlords of Draenor. Siege of Orgrimmar items display raid difficulty and Warforged bonuses, WoD quest items now display uncommon, rare, and epic versions, and WoD dungeon items now display a Heroic option as well as bonuses that modify the required level and item level. When an item bonus is selected, the URL is modified as well so you can link the specific version of an item that you want.

Olivia and Perc started a new video podcast, the Wowhead Weekly. Catch up on the latest news, beta developments, and site improvements on Wowhead every week.

Warlords of Draenor items can now have multiple models attached to them, as opposed to one model for one page, so our modelviewer now automatically updates based on what item bonus you have selected.

Item Tooltips for Warlords of Draenor have also been updated with bonus modifiers for new raid difficulties, augmentations, and random stats.

Mount pages now display Warlords of Draenor flavor text from the mount journal.

Modelviewer animations have been added to your character's model on the Profiler.

Item tooltips for glyphs now display what other glyphs are exclusive and cannot be used at the same time.

Garrison Abilities now show if they are an Ability or a Trait, and what enemy threat they counter. There are also Counter filters for Abiilties and clicking on a Counter on a Mission page brings up a list of all abilities that counter it.

The database is now equipped to handle the new stat Versatility as well as hybrid primary stats. These hybrid primary stats are found on Warlords of Draenor items and change based on your spec. On individual item pages, you can modify an item's tooltip to show the stats for your spec, using the "Showing tooltip for: " option underneath the tooltip.

Toybox items now have their own Warlords filter and display information on tooltips and Quick Facts.

Warlords of Draenor profiles now have the option of embedding a WoD talent calculator for your spec.

WoD items now have a spec-specific tooltip option that greys out stats not counted for your spec.

We published a series of Guides to Warlords of Draenor Class Changes covering new, changed, and removed talents, class abilities, specializations, glyphs, and perks, as well as the patch notes and blue tweets for each class.

February 2014

We launched our new Item Finder tool for new players or those unfamiliar with databases. Just click on a few buttons to get filters for your gear, consumables, profession items, mounts and more!

The search results page has received a number of improvements. At the top of the page, you'll find the most popular results as well as top guides for that topic. Underneath, the tabs and data lists have been organized by popularity, and you can now filter your results further.

Fishing pools have been added to the database with map locations and basic catch information.

We've added a new way to browse search results. Simply click on a result and navigate between other things on the list with the red arrow buttons at the top right of the screen. Click on the Up button to return to the search results.

The Item Comparison tool and Profiler now account for item enhancements (gems, enchants, profession perks) that scale based on level. Tooltips and stat summaries reflect the stats appropriate to your character's level.

Users can sort by pet rarity in the Profiler and custom profiles now have smarter search results when equipping class-appropriate weapons.

NPCs that offer quests now have a ! before their name in search results. When getting multiple results for an NPC, it is easier to see which versions are used in phased areas, and which are the real questgivers.

Personal loot, such as LFR, Flex, and legendary quest items, is marked as PL in the droprate column instead of ?? to better reflect the droprate information.

Battle Pet NPC pages now display source details in Quick Facts and under all maps.

Subzone maps have been added to the database. They have a new menu in /maps and can be accessed from a special Subzone tab on their parent zone page.

Users can now add their favorite items to Custom Profiles as they're browsing Wowhead. Look for the blue "Add to List" button on most pages at the top right, or add multiple items directly via the listview.

December 2013

Wowhead and Hearthhead are now optimized for tablet devices! Have fun browsing on your iPad with new menus and page layouts.

Players can now filter their collected mounts, pets, achievements, titles, and recipes in the Profiler with special exclusion categories for things you're likely to ignore like Collector Edition or non-US promotion items.

Players can track a character's collected mounts, pets, achievements, titles, and recipes on database pages and search results. Site tooltips for item and spell versions reflect completion as well.

November 2013

Sounds and music have been added to the database. Listen to the sound effects and music associated with a particular spell or zone.

Users can now track their quest progress on individual quest pages and search results by pinning an imported Battle.net Character in User Settings. Site tooltips reflect quest completion as well.

Guides have received a number of improvements, including better visibility in search results, a new landing page, improved styling, and better integration on database pages.

A changelog tab has been added to all spell pages that have received changes since Patch 4.1. This displays all versions of a spell's tooltip, the patch build it was changed in, and any name changes, like .

October 2013

Welcome Hearthhead to the Wowhead family! Hearthhead features tons of Hearthstone tools, including an Arena Practice tool, Deck Guides, Deckbuilder, and Community Hub. Our Hearthstone database has been expanded to now include achievements, cards, heroes, mechanics, and quests. We also have localized tooltip text and display what hero levels unlock basic Golden cards.

A Same Mechanics tab has been added to battle pet ability pages for abilities that are identical in all but name.

A new battle pet filter, Has Ability, has been added for players who want to search pets that have the same ability--or share many abilities. Enter in the ability ID to search.

Gem and enchant picker windows used in the Item Comparison and Profiler tools now have additional filters and new default sorting.

The Profiler's Equipment Set was reworked to be much smoother and reload less when modifying a character's gear. In addition, battle pets in the Profiler can have their stats specified and changed.

For users interested in Challenge Modes or Proving Grounds, a "Challenge Mode" scaling button has been added to item pages and the Comparison tool. This scales an item down to item level 463.

Users can now filter individual transmog sets from the new Part of transmog set # filter or via the new "Filter This Set" button on pages. This allows users to see the sources of all items and narrow down items in large sets.

Role filters have been added that allow users to filter items by Agi DPS, Int DPS, Strength DPS, Tanks, and Healers. This filter is at the top, next to faction and class filters. Additional role drop-down menus have been added for trinkets due to their complicated procs.

Additional quest objective data has been added to quest pages.

Achievement criteria has been improved for achievements that have different criteria for Alliance and Horde, such as Я у тебя на базе, и я убиваю твоих парней!. Click the toggle to see faction-specific criteria.

August 2013

We introduced the Battle Pet Team Calculator--create and link your ideal pet teams, import a player's team from Battle.net, or check out a trainer's team. The calculator also comes with a Compare feature that allows two teams to be compared with an ability analysis below that points out strengths, weaknesses, heals, debuffs, and more.

Items now display new RPPM details, including radio buttons for items with spec-specific procs, details on cooldowns, and information on proc modifiers such as Haste, Crit, and Budget.

New filters include spells that scale with Spellpower and Attack Power, Flexible and Warforged items.

Spell Effects have much more information listed under Spell Details.

New tooltip option allowing users to hide more complex parts of Wowhead tooltips when displaying them on third-party sites.

July 2013

We relaunched the Profiler, allowing you to import characters from Battle.net, modify characters, and create your own characters and custom lists from scratch! You can even make and save lists logged out.

Items now have image search results, in addition to the normal listview. Click on the "Gallery" tab to see 3D thumbnails of all the items and click on each picture to open our modelviewer.

The "Same Model As" tab on weapon and armor pages now displays an item's model instead of simply text. Perfect when trying to find items that are completely identical.

Loot specialization details have now been added to all boss and item pages. Click on the class icon on NPC pages to filter loot for your class--spec details appear in the "Type" column. We've also added Loot Specializaiton item filters.

Breed and conditional filters have been added to Battle Pets, and users can now change stats in search results by clicking on the Breed drop-down menu.

June 2013

We migrated servers--this change will allow us to have better uptime, faster load times, and allow us to create more awesome features in the future.

Tooltips received several additions. We now display multiple resource costs for abilities, buffs/debuffs applied by an ability, and Attack Power coefficients, in addition to improving the spellpower coefficients for spells with Direct Damage/Healing and DoT/HoT components. We've also simplified some of the displayed formulas, while still allowing users to use the spell slider to scale the tooltip by levels.

Battle pet passives have been added to Pet Quick Facts.

Thunderforged and Heroic tags have been added to items.

Filters for lengthy options, such as Drops In have been reorganized by subcategory for easier selection.

We now show a "Modifies" tab on spell pages, in addition to a "Modifies By" tab. Useful for looking up abilities affected by talents, masteries, trinkets, and set bonuses.

We added a stat tool to all battle pet pages calculating stats based on a pet's breed, quality, and level, and revamped our gallery and traditional listviews to display more information about a pet's abilities.

Abilities on battle pet pages now show what level they are learned at, and auras are now linked to their parent pet abilities.

November 2012

Several tools were added to support Item Upgrades in 5.1:Our Item Comparison Tool now supports Item Upgrades. An "Upgrade" option has been added to the item menu (click on the icon to access), which will automatically adjust the tooltip and all the stats. Go to http://www.wowhead.com/compare to get started!

Search results now display an "Upgrades" column between "Req." and "Side." This column displays icons if the item can be upgraded, and mousing over an icon shows an upgraded version for easy reference. There is also a new search filter: Can Be Upgraded.

Toggle options on all item pages display an approximation of the upgraded stats, including trinket procs, which aren't displayed in the in-game UI. Quick Facts displays the currency cost for all upgrades.

We added an option to our advanced tooltip code to display upgraded items instead of the basic version. Adding "upgd=" and specifying the upgrade amount (1 or 2) will display the new version.

Tooltips have been redesigned to better match the new in-game layout.Player abilities (class abilities, talents, glyphs, specializations) now have additional ability information in the "Type" column on search results. This information can be clicked on to bring up further ability filters.Data tabs on the Class pages were rearranged for a more streamlined layout and to better highlight the Glyphs tab.A "Modified By" tab was added to all MoP ability pages to show what buffs/modifies a specific ability: class abilities, talents, glyphs, and specializations. In addition, we also included what MoP set bonuses modify abilities.Achievement criteria was added to all MoP achievement pages and tooltips. Criteria tab added to all relevant database pages.Based on user feedback, tooltips received numerous updates:

The tooltip code for blogs was also updated to include more customization options for icons, link colors, and link names.Links to Wowhead News articles and helpful fansites were integrated into many popular database pages, such as Classes, Zones, Professions, and Reputations.

DayZDB, originally a map resource run by Alayton, expanded to be a full-fledged database.

June 2012

Wowhead News got a major layout revamp and new look. We also restyled the sidebar to have new tools such as featured guide box as well as the most popular addons from WoW Interface. Most importantly, it's no longer on a separate domain.

We added a League of Legends website to our growing network: LolKing. With awesome tools like a Wowhead-inspired League of Legends database, a 3D model viewer, tons of informative charts, and a LoL stream portal, there's something for everyone.

May 2012

Many revisions to the transmog guide, with over 200 new sets and edits based on user feedback.

We added D3DB to our network, a Diablo III database built by Wowhead fans.

Tooltips for Mists of Pandaria abilities now display spell percentages and coefficients.

April 2012

Our 3D Modelviewer was redone. It uses Flash instead of Java, has improved particle details, and has significantly faster load times. The best part is that Pandaren have been added to the race options!

We added dynamic quest reward selection to our Mists of Pandaria database, since Blizzard is changing quest rewards to be automatically chosen for players based on their class and spec.

Pet battle data, including wild pets and all pet abilities, is a new section in the Mists of Pandaria database.

Added search feature allowing players to see results for Mists of Pandaria items and spells on the live/Cataclysm-era database.

March 2012

Mists of Pandaria beta hit and we've been providing daily coverage since it's been open. We also launched mop.wowhead.com as our beta database with items, spells, NPCs, quests, and more.

December 2011

We released a Portugese version of Wowhead, to coincide with the launch of WoW Brazil.

A new transmog feature was launched: a color sorter allowing you to search for armor by similar colors. Big thanks to Mogit's creators for helping us out! Either type in a hexadecimal color code or click on the square to the left to change the color, hue, or saturation. You'll then get a list of items that include that hue. If you don't care about your set having matching details, but really want a specific color scheme, this tool is perfect for you.

November 2011

Our first massive transmog feature was unveiled: a database of all matching items in the game--currently numbering over 1000 sets. We added image browsing in addition to list browsing--there are two tabs, it's the default one. Our reasoning was that you probably want to be able to see the set before clicking on it, if you're one of those visual oriented players. Second, we added a lot of new sets including resistance sets, look-alike tiers, and more. From troll heroic epics to BoE greens, we've got the matching set of armor for you!

We rounded up all the coverage from Mists of Pandaria to launch our preliminary 5.0 guide covering all aspects of the new expansion from Pet Battles to Monks.

The comment system got revamped. We changed the default sorting order, the up/down vote layout, and comment/reply layout. This new system will make voting easier and discouraging abusing downvotes to build reputation. Our devs are constantly tweaking this system based on user feedback, which you can read about on their blog.

October 2011

BlizzCon 2011 took place October 21-22 and with it came a slew of newscoverage--featuring live blogs and summarizes of all the panels, a sneak peak at the Mists of Pandaria demo, and interviews with Blizzard staff.

The first part of our 'Same Model As' transmog feature was released: a guide to all 1000+ capes, organized by identical designs. The expanded version of the feature, for all armor slots, is scheduled for early 2012.

We launched the first working version of the 5.0 Talent Calculator mere hours after it was first previewed at BlizzCon. Come create sample talent trees in anticipation of the massive talent changes in Mists of Pandaria!

September 2011

We introduced a reputation system to Wowhead--now you can get reputation and achievements for participating on the site. Check out our reputation levels and privileges here.

August 2011

Following the success of our weekend and holiday guides, we launched a new site feature: a user-based guide section. Users can submit guides on a variety of WoW topics, which is a great way to share your favorite aspect of WoW and get some additional blog traffic! So far, we've had everything from class guides by prominent bloggers to quirky profession write-ups.

We created a Volunteer Page featuring the hard work of all the volunteers that work behind the scenes at Wowhead!

With the addition of the Dungeon Journal, we added a tab to all boss pages that displays the text from this new in-game feature.

May 2011

Released in Spring 2011, Wowhead News provided heavy-hitting 4.1 PTR coverage. The new site also included a sidebar with a blue tracker, guild recruitment links, and trending features, as well as collapsing quote boxes, featured article links at the top of the page, and numerous new graphics!

January 2011

Wowhead now has its very own Blue Tracker, for all of your US and EU Blizzard poster needs!

We've improved the integration and linking of currencies all across the site!

Quartermaster vendor lists will now display the proper reputation required to purchase an item.

We've added Wowhead search shortcuts, allowing you to quickly and easily access your favorite Wowhead tools and database pages directly from the search box. This will allow you to search quests, items, npcs and more via ID (simply entering "quest 1234" for example) as well as allow quick access to some of the site's more popular tools, such as by searching "talent calculator" or "forum"!

New Cataclysm random item enchantments are now properly supported on the site.

December 2010

Profile management has now been combined into an easy-to-use 'Manage character' button with options to pin, unpin or remove a character and a 'Custom profile' button which will easily allow you to create and manage new profiles.

Users can now select specifically which World of Warcraft accounts they would like to upload data with the Wowhead Client from.

We've added a new Currencies category which details all of the new, non-item currencies in-game, including detailed information and vendor lists!

October 2010

We've added a 'Use in-game' button to our Talent Calculator, which provides you with an easy script to paste in-game to automatically fill in the talent build with those you have selected right here on Wowhead!

August 2010

We've made some changes to the Profiler landing page! You can now easily query directly for an Armory character by entering all character details (region, realm and character name) or complete a generalized search filling in only certain fields. This is extremely handy if you are having trouble finding your character on Wowhead!

We've changed the way we display required levels of dungeons. Quick Facts boxes on dungeon pages will now detail both the level required to enter the instance and the level required to queue for it via the Dungeon Finder tool!

Clicking on a socket in an item now takes you to a filtered page of gems of that color.

We have changed display of titles as a quest reward to be consistent with in-game wording.

We've moved the database menus under the search box on the homepage - no more overlapping the search box!

Mod/admin responses to posts are now indicated in the appropriate color within the original post.The "last post" column on our forums now shows appropriately colored usernames.We've added more information to the Quick Facts box for mounts.The Replies tab on user pages now correctly displays previews of posts that contain quotes.We've polished the appearance of the progress bars in the Completion Tracker.Zone pages with articles now appropriately show padding around the "Show On Map" button.We've brushed up the appearance of our profession pages.Quests that are "No longer available to players" will no longer appear in the Completion Tracker.We've improved the way Wowhead pages are displayed in Google search results, so casual passersby will get a better idea of what pages they're looking at.We've added a new "No longer available to players" tag for quests that are important but are no longer in the game.The icons on the skills listview now correctly link to the appropriate skill page.The account sign-in and account settings pages are now secure via HTTPS.Quests now display their class and race requirements.The level selection dropdown now correctly appears on the Item Comparison whenever an heirloom item is present.Searching for "Gunship Battle" now automatically takes you to the appropriate page.The find upgrades search now defaults to displaying item scores in percentage format rather than raw points.NPC abilities now have their own tab in search results.Class quests are now automatically flagged as requiring the appropriate class.The "share" link on blog posts now opens in a new window.We've added support for dual-school spells, like "Spellshadow" damage.We've added several new filters for item sets.The classes pages now have buttons that link to the appropriate forum and Talent Calculator pages. We've also given glyphs their own tab, and moved them out of the "items" tab.We've adjusted the styling on database comments to match the comments in the blog.The talents category now appropriately shows all ranks of each talent.

We've added a notification to the Completion Tracker, so you can now see what categories you're filtering.

Find Upgrades searches now indicated which item on the list is the one that you already have equipped.

You can now add multiple items to the Item Comparison without closing the lightbox in between!

The gemming window now defaults to displaying all gems rather than only gems that match the color of the socket you picked. This way when you search for that perfect gem that doesn't match colors properly, you'll still see it in the default screen.

We've re-organized the spells section of the database for ease of use, renaming some menu options for clarity and adding a new submenu under Pet Abilities.

We've cleaned up some useless info on hunter pet pages, as well as reordering the tabs so the gallery displays by default.

We now have class and race pages in the database menu! These give you a simple, straightforward place to look when you're trying to find abilities, talents, quests, trainers, item sets, or anything else related to a specific class or race.

The Profiler and the Item Comparison have an upgraded picker window for gems and enchants! You now have the option of sorting based on the Gearscore of the enhancement (to show endgame enchantments first), OR based on your active weight scale. Try it out!

You can now click on any icon found throughout the site to see a list of items, spells, or achievements that use that icon.

If your character bookmark is flagged as private, the completion data you uploaded will now only be visible to you.

The Achievements tab now defaults to showing your most recently completed achievements.

Entries which are complete but excluded are now marked with a star.

Profiler

The Profiler now automatically pulls your character's face, skin, hair, and other physical characteristics from the Armory.

We've standardized the gear scores for enchantments. They should be a little more realistic now.

You can now expand all of the statistics with one convenient button, preventing you from having to read them individually in mouseover.

Wowhead Client

The program now has an option to disable the uploading of character data entirely.

The Wowhead Looter addon now gives more verbose messages when it correctly (or incorrectly) gathers character data. These messages have a limit on the number of times they can be displayed, but if you want to disable them altogether you can type /wl nospam.

Other

We have composed an awesome Cataclysm Guide which includes loads of new information and details about the upcoming expansion!

We noticed that some of the articles we had up on boss pages etc. were getting long, so we moved them to their own Article tab.

Comment ratings are now clickable to display the breakdown of positive versus negative moderations!

Searches that yield no results are now enhanced by Google's Did You Mean functionality.

You can now view 3D models for any items straight from a listing! You can even select multiple items at once and view them all on the same model! Simply check the items you're interested in and click the "View in 3D" button.

We've added a brand new World Events section where you can find more information about all the world events available in the game.

You can now view Heirloom items at any level by clicking on the level in their tooltip!

The Account Settings page has been revamped and now contains new customization options!Including default comment sort, default model viewer character, and more!

We now have our own page on Facebook. Use it to connect with other fans, and to learn more about upcoming features!We've added Share links to the Blog, to allow you to share interesting stories here on your favorite sites.Changing the level in a item tooltip that contains multiple combat ratings will now update all of them simultaneously.Mounts are now denoted as such in their tooltip, just like in the game.Items that require a world event, such as Призовой жетон Хмельного фестиваля, now say as such in their tooltip.

October 2009

Item filters have been cleaned up a bit. The Class-specific and Race-specific filters have been taken out of the main filters and moved to the filter dropdown. You can now use Usable by and Side filters to do your "Available to class/faction" filtering.

September 2009

The site now fully supports all FOUR raid dungeon modes—Normal 10, Normal 25, Heroic 10, and Heroic 25. 25 man raids are accordingly no longer referred to as "Heroic". We've also added filters for Normal and Heroic instances.

We've pulled down the News & Announcements page and the Under Development page, replacing them with the Wowhead Blog and the What's New page you're on now!

You can now filter comments by patch! Just click the dropdown at the top of the Comments tab and select a patch to show only comments posted during that patch. Patches that have no comments won't be listed in the dropdown.

You now have access to the Unrated Comments page! This will show you all comments that haven't yet been rated, giving you the first opportunity to filter out the useless comments, and rate up the good ones.

The 'Hide/Show pins' button on the map interface is now an actual button, instead of a mere link.

August 2009

With a new expansion, comes a new forum! This one's for you, Cataclysm.

The Profiler now has a convenient "print" function, for easy offline storage of your character's inventory (or theoretical inventory).

December 2008

Our stat weighting system now allows you to group items by slot, for a comprehensive list of the best gear available.

The filters on our item pages have been cleaned up! We've replaced the Physical and Spells categories with a simpler Offensive and Defensive section. We've also moved some of the more rarely used filters down to the "Miscellaneous" category.

We've consolidated all the combat ratings down to a single stat, so melee/ranged/spell ratings are no longer listed separately. For finding the few items that grant one type without granting another (like the Netherstrand Longbow), the individual sub-stats are listed on the filters in a separate section.

Since hit rating uses a different coefficient for spells and for melee, we've changed the system so that it shows the spell coefficient for items with spell power on them, and the melee coefficient otherwise.

July 2008

Pet Calculator: Now you can create sample builds for your pets the same way you do with talents!

Pet Comparison: We now have a "Pets" category for hunters, which lists all the pet families and includes their relative statistics to make choosing easier. Each pet type now has its own page, with room for comments, screenshots, and a complete 3D gallery showing all the different pets of that type!

June 2008

Now you can order the items in a filtered list based on an item score you can customize yourself, effectively producing a list of the best items per your weights! Just click the "Create a weight scale" link to open up the weighting UI.

You can now perform quick searches within search results, filtered lists, or any listing really! The quick search includes not only the name of the item, but also everything that is visible! A search within this listing for "70 pvp" will return any items that have those keywords in any column. Please note that as the label in the search box implies, this will only search within displayed results, and as such is most effective if what you are looking for is within these results.

Now you can filter the results of an individual column! Just right click on the column header, enter a search term, and it will show only results that contain those terms. For instance, you may want to filter your class' skill list to only display abilities for certain levels.

The Source column for items now has more detailed information. For instance, you can now see what specific NPC drops or sells the item you're looking for, and what zone the NPC is in, without a separate page load!

Each stat that is filtered for is now added as an additional column in the results, which you can sort by or filter for.

Seasonal quests have now been sorted by holiday! You can now check out each individual holiday category here.

Weapons and Armor filters will now only show the relevant slots. For example, creating a filter in the daggers category will only show main-hand, one-hand, and off-hand slots.

Wowhead now has a screenshot viewer! Now, rather than taking you to a whole new page to see a screenshot, the screenshot will pop up in a convenient lightbox, tailored to fit the size of your browser window. You can even link directly to a screenshot just by copying and pasting a URL!

The search engine has been improved to provide greater ease in searching. It is now much simpler to search for terms with hyphens or apostrophes in them.

A new "Same model as" tab is now available on select item and NPC pages. The tab contains other items or NPCs that share the same model!

April 2008

Check out the new abilities tab! You can now look at any NPC on on Wowhead and see exactly what abilities that NPC uses. There are still a very few NPCs that don't have ability information -- this will fill in as we get more dataz from the Wowhead Client.

March 2008

A formatting toolbar has now been added! This means you can now add all sorts of fancy formatting to your posts, without having to type out all the !. We expect to see pretty formatting on all your posts from here on out--don't let us down, now!

February 2008

The 3D Model Viewer has been updated! Not only is it faster than ever, it now features support for mounts of all types, small pets, and some non-combat pets. We've also changed it to display in the same window, instead of in an annoying pop-up. If you have any issues, please report them here!

Dynamic Searching! Now, as you're trying to remember the name of that item you were looking for, Wowhead will offer suggestions! This also works on the Browser Search Plugins, though users will have to remove and re-add their plugin before the new functionality is active.

New filters!

Purchaseable With: Users can now filter items to show which items are bought with different currency types.

Filter by Currency: You can now jump directly to the currency filters from the equivalent item page.

Quest Rewards Tab: You can now see a comprehensive list of all the quest rewards in a particular zone, directly from the zone page!Quest Difficulty Levels: You can now see the level at which a quest becomes red, orange, yellow, green or grey, directly from the quest page!

January 2008

All comments will now show the WoW patch that was active when the comment was posted!

The Pet Skill pages have been vastly improved! All pet skills now feature a list of pets that can learn that skill, and a "Taught By" tab which will show you which beast you need to tame in order to learn it!

All tradeskill listings now include the levels where they change from orange, to yellow, to green, to grey!

Discoveries have been added to the Alchemy page, and we now have another layer of categorization in place to show Battle and Guardian elixirs.

3D Models are now implemented on many NPC and item pages!

Forum posts and comments are now filtered, both for profanity and for spam URLs.

December 2007

We've added Baseline Filters to the site! This will allow you to create a search that returns items from multiple different subcategories at once. For example, you can do a search that return leather and mail items but not plate or cloth, or show potions and flasks but not scrolls, or even axes and swords but not maces. Tryitout!

Personal arena rating requirements are now displayed in item tooltips.

November 2007

We've added Item Ratings to the site! The percentages default to either the listed minimum level of the item, or (in the case of quest items) the level of the quest that awards the item. However, you can click on the percentage listed to enter in a different level.

We've also fixed the spell damage and healing filters to correspond to the 2.3 changes. Try it and see!

August 2007

You can now increase the level cap to 80, for those of you wanting to experiment with builds for the new expansion!

The calculator now has a "Lock/Unlock" button, to prevent accidental changes. Also, when you follow a link to a build, the talent calculator will be locked by default, making it much easier to read non max-level builds.

We've improved the layout so it's more convenient (e.g. resetting a specific tree has never been so simple).

The following enhancements have been made to the comments system:

Select formatting features have been introduced to comments. You can now italicize or bold parts of your comments to make them stand out. Comments may also have links with custom display text defined, and you now have the ability to display bulleted or numbered lists.

Comments can now be sorted by "Highest rated first" in addition to the default sort order (by Date).

You can now edit and/or delete your own comments at any time.

When clicking on a link that takes you directly to a comment in Wowhead, the comment will be highlighted to make it easier to find.

A preview pane has been added for users to preview their comments.

An 'Expand' link has been added to the comments box, for the longwinded posters among us :)

Most listings have been enhanced to display popular information without needing to click on the item to retrieve it:

Quest listings will now display a column describing the rewards for completing the quest.

Item listings will now show the level required to use the item as well as how the item is obtained (labeled as 'Source').

Professions will now indicate how the recipe/pattern is obtained (labeled as 'Source').

Pet skills will now display the training points required to learn the appropriate skill.

Spells that create items, such as Alchemy spells that create potions, will now direct the user to the created item if you click on the icon in the list. Clicking on the text or anywhere else in the row will still take you to the actual spell page.

Item text now also displays the item's tooltip on mouseover. This affects listings, and allpageswith item tooltips.

The number of results per page was increased in several listing types throughout the site.

Latest Comments will now display up to 300 comments total with 75 comments per page.

May 2007

We have teamed up with WoWWiki to bring you even more information on the site via articles that are embedded right into the pages you're used to visiting. Here are a few sample "articled" pages: Karazhan, The Botanica and Thunderfury. Over time, more and more articles will be made available.

March 2007

Footlockers, those locked boxes that rogues have to practice their lockpicking skill, now have their own category.

Comments with a rating of +10 (or more) are now highlighted in green so that they stand out.

Never miss a quest again! The location of quest givers have been added to all zones maps (e.g. Duskwood).

All Dungeons and Raids zones now have Bosses listed under their own tab (e.g. Scarlet Monastery).

A new Account Settings page is now available for logged in users. This page lets you change your password and e-mail address. It can also be used to set a public description (more about yourself, etc.) that will appear right in your profile. Upcoming user preferences will also be available on this page soon. To access this page, simply click the Account Settings button in the above menu.Item filtering is now smarter than ever! Here are some sample searches you couldn't do before:

November 2006

You may now browse profession recipes by specialization. For instance, here are the devices that you can create if you specialize in Gnomish Engineering.

Buyout prices have been added to the site! They are an average for all servers and should give you a very good idea of how much the item is worth at the AH, or whether you should vendor the item or auction it. Here are some sample items: Arcanite Bar, Elemental Attuned Blade, Silk Cloth.